Madrid, Aug. 29.
Twenty members of the American Volunteer Ambulance Corps, headed by Colonel James Sparks, which served with the French Army on the West Front, were being detained by Spanish authorities yesterday for entering the country wearing uniforms and decorations recently bestowed upon them by France.
Entering a neutral country so dressed constitutes a violation of international law. The Americans entered Spain Saturday by way of Port Bou, and were interned in a concentration camp at Figeras Saturday night. They were permitted to go to a hotel Tuesday, while authorities decide whether they are combat ants or non-combatants. The United States Embassy insists that, having belonged only to the ambulance corps and therefore not participating in the actual fighting in France, the Americans are non-combatants and should be released.—Unmited Press.
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